Word: films
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the most talented people in American life. We did, not long ago, and now TIME is sponsoring an extraordinary lecture series at New York University's School of Continuing Education called "The Creative Edge." Organized by Richard Brown, an assistant professor of humanities, the program uses both film and live interviews to explore the creative process of six great artists: writers Arthur Miller and Tom Wolfe, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, actress Helen Hayes and photographer Yousuf Karsh. "We saw this as a special opportunity," says Anne Janas, our manager of public affairs. "These...
...losing our focus," as Hsia suggests? The answer is no. Every year, we hold a food festival, a cultural festival, a film festival and host speakers and workshops to celebrate and educate the Harvard community about the Asian American experience. More than half the positions in our steering committee deal specifically with political and social concerns of Asian Americans, "social" being defined as having to do with human beings existing and interacting together. This year alone, we organized an intercollegiate conference on Asian American social concerns and played large roles in bringing about Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism week...
...sure, the film's central symbolic figure, the widowed Mrs. Bender (Edna Dore, whose senile silences speak volumes) has a safe place in that house, superficially unchanged since she raised her children. But she is, in fact, the last holdout on a gentrifying block, and the world beyond it has become utterly incomprehensible to her. Indeed, the movie's most crucial and comic scene occurs when she locks herself out and must apply to her silly- deadly, yup-scale neighbors for help...
...tends her struggling rooftop garden and keeps trying to talk Cyril into having a child. What can you do these days but make a warm place to nurture people -- and some small hopes for a less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies, but never dries up emotionally -- a film that never puts its characters' duties to metaphor ahead of their prime obligation, which is to live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity...
STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having its TV debut...